William Caxton
William Caxton (ca. 1422-1491), translator and publishers, was England's first printer. He mastered the craft because his "pen became worn, his hand weary, his eyes dimmed" with copying, so he "practiced and learnt" at great personal expense how to print. His first book, and the first book printed in English, was his translation of Raoul Le Fevre's Recueil des histoires de TroyeMorte Darthur. Caxton used only one device, which appeared for the first time on the last page of the Sarum Missal printed for him in Paris by Guillaume Maynyal in 1487.